The University of Sheffield has announced the outcomes of a joint venture with Figshare, an online digital repository for academic researchers. Through this partnership, they have delivered an integrated hub for managing and sharing research data, named ORDA (Online Research Data https://orda.shef.ac.uk/). The University of Sheffield has developed this custom-branded portal on top of their Figshare portal (https://sheffield.figshare.com/) using the Figshare API.
By creating a public portal and assigning digital object identifiers (DOIs), Figshare makes an organisation's research products searchable, discoverable, and citable, and their impact and attention is captured through statistical reporting and altmetrics.
The University of Sheffield's solution enables staff, students and researchers to meet funding-body requirements for open access to data while providing a secure, long-term space for a wide range of content; all on one platform that encourages collaboration. The solution will also allow for the easy citation and re-use of their digital data by making it discoverable, citable and shareable from anywhere.
Figshare for Institutions functionality includes portals that showcase research of an institution or department; ability to group content into collections; data curation and administrative workflows; flexible storage options; increased file upload limits; and enhanced content discoverability through a revamped search, categorisation and metadata.
Figshare for Institutions operates under an annual subscription license and can provide data storage through Amazon Web Services. Alternatively, Figshare interoperates with existing institutional storage and infrastructure or centrally provided storage such as RDSI in Australia or other third party providers including DuraCloud.
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